Girl Singer
ISBN: 9781935248736 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "A fast-paced narrative. . . . compelling and intense reading, by turns funny, tender, and horrifying, "Girl Singer "is the real deal a captivating, well-told tale." Fred Kasten, Edward R. Murrow Award-winning journalist "Carlon is a natural heir of Robert Louis Stevenson. If you like good fiction, you'll like "Girl Singer."" Brian Morton, "The Penguin Guide to Jazz" "Carlon is a unique educational force, bringing young readers into the pleasures and drama of jazz." Nat Hentoff, "Jazz Country," " Boston Bay," etc. "An arresting and wonderful story that communicates through a deep... "A fast-paced narrative. . . . compelling and intense reading, by turns funny, tender, and horrifying, "Girl Singer "is the real deal a captivating... |
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66,32 zł |
Beginning the World Again: A Novel of Los Alamos
ISBN: 9781504009645 / Angielski / Miękka / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. After a chance meeting in 1981, Lily Fialka confronts the defining time of her life: 1943-45 in Los Alamos, when her physicist husband, Peter, worked on the atomic bomb as part of the Manhattan Project--a time of isolation, hard work, temptation, and loneliness, yet exhilaration and triumph; when great breakthroughs were made, but lives felt narrow; when loyalty was paramount, but the need for secrecy created unbearable tension. At the same time, Lily and her friends are haunted by what is happening to Dietrich Bonhoeffer in the Resistance in Germany, and his story serves as a counterpoint to...
After a chance meeting in 1981, Lily Fialka confronts the defining time of her life: 1943-45 in Los Alamos, when her physicist husband, Peter, worked ...
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66,49 zł |
Last Métro to Bleecker Street
ISBN: 9781604148473 / Angielski / Miękka / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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78,94 zł |
The Lost Torah of Shanghai
ISBN: 9780984493920 / Angielski / Miękka / 222 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Lily Kovners first reaction to the news that a precious Torah has gone missing from the home of a Chinese government official in Shanghai is disbelief. She scoffs at her nickname, "the Jewish Miss Marple," and rejects the prospect that she could be instrumental in recovering the Torah. Yet, Lilys devotion to her newfound Chinese-Jewish cousin, Ruth, trumps her skepticism. Along with her significant other, Simon, and Ruth, Lily undertakes another improbable quest plagued by threats, dangerous physical attack, and a likely murder. Ultimately, political intrigue stemming from Chinas...
Lily Kovners first reaction to the news that a precious Torah has gone missing from the home of a Chinese government official in Shanghai is disbelief...
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62,33 zł |
Book of Numbers
ISBN: 9780812986655 / Angielski / Miękka / 592 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. NATIONAL BESTSELLER NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY VULTURE AND ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR AND THE WALL STREET JOURNAL A monumental, uproarious, and exuberant novel about the search for love, truth, and the meaning of Life With The Internet.
More impressive than all but a few novels published so far this decade . . . a wheeling meditation on the wired life, on privacy, on what being human in the age of binary code might mean . . . Joshua] Cohen, all of thirty-four, emerges as a major American writer. The New... NATIONAL BESTSELLER NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY VULTURE AND ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR AND ...
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99,78 zł |
Blood Line: A Granger Spy Novel
ISBN: 9780990314455 / Angielski / Twarda / 198 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Blood Line is a high-voltage spy thriller that redefines rogue--the Granger Spy Novel series introduces a loving family with lethal issues caught in the crosshairs of global arms dealers. When a simple home invasion turns out to be not so simple, Ron Granger must put aside his quiet rural life and return to the Central Intelligence Agency. Aided by his brilliant wife, Valerie, and resourceful teen daughter, Leecy, Ron must quickly decide who to believe among the calculating opportunists, shrewd criminals, and power-hungry rival agencies racing to possess the... Blood Line is a high-voltage spy thriller that redefines rogue--the Granger Spy Novel series introduces a loving family with letha... |
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120,54 zł |
To Kill Without a Trace
ISBN: 9781927618035 / Angielski / Miękka / 358 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the Foreword by Elena T. Feder: "On July 18, 1994, a van loaded with explosives blew to smithereens the downtown stone and mortar building of the Argentine Israelite Mutual Association (AMIA) in a matter of seconds, this time sending 85 innocent civilians to their deaths and injuring over 300... The survivors, their families, the Jewish community, and the nation as a whole have yet to move beyond the ebb and flow of fear unleashed by the devastation, confusion and momentary hope induced by the ensuing events. Although the Argentine government publicly accused Iranian-backed Hezbollah of...
From the Foreword by Elena T. Feder: "On July 18, 1994, a van loaded with explosives blew to smithereens the downtown stone and mortar building of the...
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138,25 zł |
The Marriage of Opposites
ISBN: 9781451693607 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "A luminous, Marquez-esque tale" (O, The Oprah Magazine) from the New York Times bestselling author of The Museum of Extraordinary Things a forbidden love story set on a tropical island about the extraordinary woman who gave birth to painter Camille Pissarro--the Father of Impressionism. Growing up on idyllic St. Thomas in the early 1800s, Rachel dreams of life in faraway Paris. Rachel's mother, a pillar of their small refugee community of Jews who escaped the Inquisition, has never forgiven her daughter for being a difficult girl who refuses to live by the rules....
"A luminous, Marquez-esque tale" (O, The Oprah Magazine) from the New York Times bestselling author of The Museum of Extraordinary Th...
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78,96 zł |
Above Us Only Sky
ISBN: 9781451657685 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A "gripping, heartwarming" (Bookpage) novel about a family separated by oceans, generations, and war, but connected by something much greater--the gift of wings. On March 29, 1973, Prudence Eleanor Vilkas was born with heart-shaped wings pressed accordion-style against her back. Considered a birth defect, her wings were surgically removed, leaving only the ghost of them behind. In 1980, Prudence's mother takes her from Nashville to Florida, to a town inhabited by people who have run as far as they can without fins or wings. In this new town, Prudence is befriended by a boy who...
A "gripping, heartwarming" (Bookpage) novel about a family separated by oceans, generations, and war, but connected by something much greater--...
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70,69 zł |
The Book of Aron
ISBN: 9781101872741 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Small and sullen, Aron is eight years old when his family moves from a rural Polish village to hectic Warsaw. At first gradually and then ever more quickly, his family's opportunities for a better life vanish as the occupying German government imposes harsh restrictions. Officially confined to the Jewish quarter, with hunger, vermin, disease and death all around him, Aron makes his way from apprentice to master smuggler until finally, with everyone for whom he cared stripped away from him, his only option is Janusz Korczak, the renowned doctor, children's rights advocate, and radio host who...
Small and sullen, Aron is eight years old when his family moves from a rural Polish village to hectic Warsaw. At first gradually and then ever more qu...
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87,32 zł |
Bertrand Court
ISBN: 9781938849794 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Bertrand Court is a captivating novel told in story form, intertwining seventeen luminous narratives about the secrets of a cast of politicos, filmmakers, and housewives, all tied to a suburban Washington, DC, cul-de-sac. Linked through bloodlines and grocery lines, they respond to life's bruises by grabbing power, sex, or the family silver. As they atone and forgive, they unmask the love and truth that hop white picket fences. Michelle Brafman is the author of the novel Washing the Dead. Her short fiction and essays have appeared in Slate, Tablet,... Bertrand Court is a captivating novel told in story form, intertwining seventeen luminous narratives about the secrets of a cast of politico... |
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103,74 zł |
Bertrand Court
ISBN: 9781938849800 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Bertrand Court is a captivating novel told in story form, intertwining seventeen luminous narratives about the secrets of a cast of politicos, filmmakers, and housewives, all tied to a suburban Washington, DC, cul-de-sac. Linked through bloodlines and grocery lines, they respond to life's bruises by grabbing power, sex, or the family silver. As they atone and forgive, they unmask the love and truth that hop white picket fences. Michelle Brafman is the author of the novel Washing the Dead. Her short fiction and essays have appeared in Slate, Tablet,... Bertrand Court is a captivating novel told in story form, intertwining seventeen luminous narratives about the secrets of a cast of politico... |
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66,53 zł |
Madagascar: New and Selected Stories
ISBN: 9781938126406 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Praise for Madagascar "A collection to be held up as evidence that the short story not only endures but also flourishes."--Booklist, starred review "Steven Schwartz's masterly Lives of the Fathers mines our deepest feelings toward parents, time, memory, and forgiveness."--Chicago Tribune "Schwartz delineates with admirable and diverting finesse the timeless spectacle of parents and offspring locked in tenderly shattering combat."--Publishers Weekly "These eight stories reveal Schwartz's remarkable ability to create a range of very... Praise for Madagascar "A collection to be held up as evidence that the short story not only endures but also flourishes."--Booklis... |
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74,28 zł |
They Were Like Family to Me: Stories
ISBN: 9781501115219 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Finalist for the 2017 Story Prize
Honorable Mention in the 2017 ALA Sophie Brody Medal for achievement in Jewish Literature "An absolutely dazzling triumph...A singularly inventive collection" (Jewish Book Council) of linked stories set in a German-occupied town in Poland during World War II, where tales of myth and folklore meet the real-life monsters of the Nazi invasion. 1942. With the Nazi Party at the height of its monstrous power, Hitler's SS fires up the new crematorium at Auschwitz and the occupying army empties Poland's towns and cities of their Jewish citizens. As... Finalist for the 2017 Story Prize
Honorable Mention in the 2017 ALA Sophie Brody Medal for achievement in Jewish Literature "An absolutely daz... |
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70,69 zł |
The Orphan's Tale
ISBN: 9780778319818 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A New York Times bestseller -Secrets, lies, treachery, and passion.... I read this novel in a headlong rush.- --Christina Baker Kline, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Orphan Train A powerful novel of friendship set in a traveling circus during World War II, The Orphan's Tale introduces two extraordinary women and their harrowing stories of sacrifice and survival... A New York Times bestseller |
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66,49 zł |
The Big Green Tent
ISBN: 9781250097446 / Angielski / Miękka / 592 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Named a Must-Read Book by New York Magazine, Travel+Leisure, Flavorwire, and Bustle With epic breadth and intimate detail, Ludmila Ulitskaya's remarkable work tells the story of three school friends who meet in Moscow in the 1950s and go on to embody the heroism, folly, compromise, and hope of the Soviet dissident experience. These three boys---an orphaned poet, a gifted yet fragile pianist, and a budding photographer with a talent for collecting... Named a Must-Read Book by New York Magazine, Travel+Leisure, Flavorwire, and Bustle |
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108,11 zł |
Fat Chance
ISBN: 9781610273411 / Angielski / Twarda / 234 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Confident at work but clueless at love, Claire is 40 and overweight - not a recipe she imagines can solve the romance gap. Dealing with her father's death and an angry teen doesn't make it easier. Finding no help from her ex, who is distracted by remarriage to a much younger woman, Claire copes by relying on a faithful circle of friends, a wicked sense of humor, and a new interest in fitness. When Claire meets Rob, a beguiling, slightly pudgy man at the gym, there is an instant connection. Just maybe she can haul the composure she finds at work into the gym with her. Or is it fat chance for...
Confident at work but clueless at love, Claire is 40 and overweight - not a recipe she imagines can solve the romance gap. Dealing with her father's d...
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139,66 zł |
Fat Chance
ISBN: 9781610273404 / Angielski / Miękka / 234 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Confident at work but clueless at love, Claire is 40 and overweight-not a recipe she imagines can solve the romance gap. Dealing with her father's death and an angry teen doesn't make it easier. Finding no help from her ex, who is distracted by remarriage to a much younger woman, Claire copes by relying on a faithful circle of friends, a wicked sense of humor, and a new interest in fitness. When Claire meets Rob, a beguiling, slightly pudgy man at the gym, there is an instant connection. Just maybe she can haul the composure she finds at work into the gym with her. Or is it fat chance for...
Confident at work but clueless at love, Claire is 40 and overweight-not a recipe she imagines can solve the romance gap. Dealing with her father's dea...
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88,43 zł |
A Narrow Bridge
ISBN: 9781938849824 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Shortly after Orthodox Jewish Brooklynite Jacob Fischer puts his young family on a bus to visit relatives, the bus explodes in a stunning act of terrorism. HIs faith shattered, Jacob flees the comforts of his community and disappears. He lands up in a predominantly black town in rural Alabama, where he meets Rosie, the single mother of a young son. Their developing relationship, along with the rekindling of his love of music, precipitate events that will change both their lives. This debut novel is a powerful page-turner that follows a complex man on a journey of salvation after... Shortly after Orthodox Jewish Brooklynite Jacob Fischer puts his young family on a bus to visit relatives, the bus explodes in a stunning act of te... |
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66,53 zł |
Chasing the King of Hearts
ISBN: 9781558619449 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This canonical work of Polish reportage is a terse, unexpected human lesson born of an occupation-era love story. Based on a true story, the raw interplay of history and fictionalization spans the Warsaw Ghetto, the war-torn countryside, and the nightmare of Auschwitz. This is the book's first US publication. Hanna Krall was born in 1935 in Poland and survived the Holocaust by hiding in a cupboard. She has received numerous Polish and international awards, such as the Polish PEN Club Prize and the German Wurth Preis for European Literature 2012, and has been translated... This canonical work of Polish reportage is a terse, unexpected human lesson born of an occupation-era love story. Based on a true story, the raw in... |
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66,32 zł |